Apple

According to EastFruit, in the 2022/23 season, small landlocked country Mongolia with 3.3 million inhabitants, located at more than 7 thousand km from Poland, has suddenly become quite an important market for the Polish fresh apples. read more

Prognosfruit has reflected on a successful return to Trentino, Italy, where it gathered more than 350 delegates from the apple and pear sector from Europe and beyond. read more

Five years ago, it became clear that the prospects for specialized growing apples for processing were doomed to loss. Many growers in developing countries have even stopped picking up apple carrion, which was previously quite successfully processed for production of apple juice concentrate
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As the British apple season approaches, UK growers say that while it may not be a bumper crop, they expect the taste and flavour of new-season fruit to be “excellent”. read more

At the 2023 edition of Prognosfruit, the international reference event for apples and pears, held in Val di Non, Italy, the latest forecasts for the coming campaign were announced. Production estimates for 2023 in the EU are for a 3% contraction in the apple harvest to 11.41m tons, but exactly
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Piotr Janota, President of the Fruit Union Association said that when Polish apples were introduced for the first time in the Malaysian market, Poland exported around 200 tons of apples. Now, Janota claims the export of Polish apples to Malaysia is set to increase this year. read more

The Hatch chile season has arrived and many retailers featured the popular peppers in multiple regions of the country. Specials on grilling and roasting items like sweet onions, tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchini, pineapple, corn, and bell peppers were tied in with Hatch chile promotions. Sales
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“Michigan is expecting a normal-sized apple crop this year which is less than the unusually large crop last year. The apple quality looks to be very good,” says Ken Korson, Apple Category Manager for North Bay Produce, Inc. read more

Facilitating the export of apples of Moldovan origin to the Indian market, including the approval of phytosanitary requirements to complete the import approval procedure for this product per Indian law, was one of the main topics discussed by the Director General of the National Food Safety
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Monday 2nd October 2023 will mark the start of the new British apple season and UK growers say that while it may not be a bumper crop, the taste and flavour of the new season fruit is excellent. read more

Lunchables®, in partnership with Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., enters the produce aisle for the first time with its new fresh fruit offering featuring pineapple, clementines, grapes and apples. The new product line is set to deliver a convenient solution to power kids forward throughout the
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From mid-June onwards, pineapple has seen a sharp rise in prices on the markets, a situation mainly caused by the lack of product from Costa Rica and the various internal problems in the South American country. We spoke with Spreafico, who markets the fruit
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Yesterday saw the start in Val di Non of the 2023 edition of Prognosfruit, the international reference event for apples and pears. As the President of Apot, Ennio Magnani, pointed out, "we decided to host the event here in Trentino, in the old processing hall of a cooperative
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Apple and pear production forecasts were released during the eagerly awaited Prognosfruit annual conference, organised this year in Trentino by Apot (Trentino Fruit and Vegetable Producers Association) together with Wapa (World Apple and Pear Association) and Copa-Cogeca
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A positive start to the season is expected for the VOG Consortium, one of Europe's leading apple producers. The balance comes just after the European production forecast released by Prognosfruit, which sees declining volumes across the Continent. This factor, combined with
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On August 3, the key annual conference for the global apple business Prognosfruit 2023, was held in Trento, Italy, where production forecasts for the new season for all countries are traditionally announced. The event also presented a forecast from EastFruit for Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, and
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European Union apple production is set to decrease by 3.3 per cent in 2023 compared to last year to 11.410m tonnes. This puts the crop in line with the average of the previous three years (+0.3 per cent). read more

In the last few days, the first cuts of apples from the Galan group have started in the lowland areas, which, as usual, will inaugurate the new apple-growing season. read more

Prognosfruit 2023 is currently taking place in Trentino, Italy, gathering more than 300 delegates from the apple and pear sector from Europe and beyond. During the first sessions of the conference, the apple and pear crop forecast estimates for the upcoming season were released. read more

The apple season 2022/23 in Ukraine was perhaps one of the most difficult in the past decade. “Problems with usage and rising costs of plant protection products, fertilizers, and other inputs, lack of labor force, relatively low prices of apples for processing, no growth in fresh apple prices
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